Re: st: Slowing process when running a program with multiple nested loops

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

Hi Ly,

I didn't suppose that you needed to cut back the depth of nesting; it 
seemed that the nesting structure is intrinsic to the task.
But if it works, then okay.

The point to know is that when a segment of code is inside a loop 
that gets repeated many times, it should be as time-efficient as possible.
Plus, reading/writing files is much slower than computations and 
memory-read/write operations.

I'm glad that its working well for you now.
--David


At 10:23 PM 1/14/2013, you wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thank you for your quick and very thorough response.
> Thanks to your suggestions, I did go back and found a way to speed up
> the program by rewriting the 4 ado files (which in turns allow me to
> cut back on the nested loops).
>
> Thanks so so much.
>
> --
> Ly Tran
> [...]

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